[PATCH 04/18] x86, mce: Have MCE persistent event off by default for now

Date

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:28:06 +0200

From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

Since this is a pretty new functionality and since it affects all x86,we want to have it off by default for now, in case something goes awry.You can always enable it by supplying "ras" on your kernel command line.

Also, depending on whether it is enabled or not, we emit the tracepointfrom a different place in the code to pick up any decoded info.